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'Only Ever' by Ruel is a 2025 pop track from the album 'Kicking My Feet'. The lyrics frame an intimate, insistently romantic plea, with the speaker wanting one person above all else and asking to be taken close, while the other side’s attention is presented as conditional and urgent. There is a recurring sense of performance and control, “pulling all the right strings”, alongside the darker undertow of broken hopes, late-night promises, and the need for presence when things get hard.
"Only Ever" is a track by Ruel, from the album Kicking My Feet, released 16th October 2025. The track is 2:32 long. It's filed under Pop. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 12 articles about Ruel.
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